Dave Brubeck, Jimmy Rushing - Brubeck & Rushing (Reis)
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Artist: Dave Brubeck, Jimmy RushingEdition: Music CD
Format: Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 1998-10-20
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
- There'll Be Some Changes Made
- My Melancholy Baby
- Blues In The Dark
- I Never Knew (I Could Love Anyone Like I'm Loving You)
- Ain't Misbehavin'
- Evenin'
- All By Myself
- River, Stay 'Way From My Door
- You Can Depend On Me
- Am I Blue?
- Shine On Harvest Moon
Music reviews of Brubeck & Rushing (Reis)
Music Review: A Strange Match
Rating: 5 Stars
As everyone has already said - the powerful swing of Jimmy Rushing and the gentle and ellegant moods of Dave Brubeck 4 don't seem like a match made in heaven, but somehow it works.
It was Jimmy's idea to do this album and I strongly feel that Desmond's subtle sax (for me the greatest value of Brubeck's quartet) would somehow complement his robust vocals. And it does.
To be honest, Brubeck is far from getting to my list of favourite piano players (Ellington, Monk, Tatum, Peterson, Basie, Wilson...); he probably never recorded something that would excite me like Jess Stacy's famous "Sing sing sing" solo on Benny Goodman Carnegie Hall concert, but nevertheless, at this record he somehow pulls it of without compromising his own musical persona too much.
In the end, I conclude that I don't really know why this works (although bass and drums seem subtle and versatile enough to help) but I enjoy this album imensely. Five stars, there's no doubt in my mind.
Description of Brubeck & Rushing (Reis)
An odd pairing on a couple of counts. First, there's the discrepancy between the innate swing of Jimmy Rushing's phrasing and Brubeck's notorious stiffness. (In one off-kilter moment, the singer exclaims "tell the truth, man... play it, home!" behind the pianist's ultraterse, bluesless, soft-pedaled solo on "Blues in the Dark.") Second, there's Rushing's enormous, rough-textured voice juxtaposed against the sweet, soft, lithe alto sax counterlines of Paul Desmond. It's the latter relationship that carries this 1960 session, though to be fair Brubeck rises to the occasion too, his spare playing--along with the unimpeachable bed created by associates Gene Wright, on bass, and Joe Morello, on drums--providing an exquisite showcase for the Basie belter. Don't miss Rushing slightly rolling his r's on "Evenin'"--the exquisite diction of blues aristocracy! --John CorbettBlues CDs
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